Arthur St Leger, 2nd Viscount Doneraile

Arthur St Leger, 2nd Viscount Doneraile (c. 1695 – 13 March 1734) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.

St Leger was the son of Arthur St Leger, 1st Viscount Doneraile and Elizabeth Hayes. He was elected to the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Doneraile, sitting between 1715 and 1727. In 1727, he inherited his father's viscountcy and took his seat in the Irish House of Lords.[1]

He married, firstly, Hon. Mary Mohun, daughter of Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, on 8 June 1717. He married, secondly, Catherine Sarah Conyngham, daughter of Captain John Conyngham, in March 1725. He was succeeded by his eldest son from his first marriage, Arthur.[2]

References

  1. Edmund Lodge, The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family Histories of the Nobility (Saunders and Otley, 1838), 151-2.
  2. Edmund Lodge, The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family Histories of the Nobility (Saunders and Otley, 1838), 151-2.
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by
Sir John St Leger
Bartholomew Purdon
Member of Parliament for Doneraile
1715–1727
With: William Causabon
Succeeded by
John Waller
Jephson Busteed
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
Arthur St Leger
Viscount Doneraile
1st creation
1727–1734
Succeeded by
Arthur St Leger
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